Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de
The Frenchman Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1775 - 1836), son to a royal administrator, was an army officer, engineer, and physicist.
As a physicist, he worked on electricity and magnetism. He discovered the inverse relationship of the force between two electric charges and the square of the distance, later named after him as Coulomb's law.
However, his main occupation was engineering.
He lent his name to to the coulomb, the unit of electrical charge.
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